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2. APTENOPEDES RUFOVITTATA. 

 (Plate XXVI, fig. 11.) 



Aptenopedes rufovittata SCUDDKK!, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1877), pp. 85- 

 86; Ent. Notes, VI (1878), p. 26. BRUNKR, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), 

 p. 55. 



Body green, more or less infuscated above. Face minutely and rather 

 sparsely dotted with blackish fuscous, the mouth-parts and the lower 

 part of the face often decidedly pink ; antennae with the first two joints 

 green, beyond either dull green more or less iufuscated (male) or with 

 the basal half reddish or pinkish brown and the apical half olivaceo- 

 fuscous (female); eyes as in A. sphenarioides. Pronotum rugulose, 

 much more heavily in the male than in 'the female, and the dorsum of 

 the other thoracic joints and the basal abdominal joints similarly 

 marked; pronotum with a distinct (female) or inconspicuous (male) 

 median carina, obscurely infuscated in the male, generally marked dis- 

 tinctly but narrowly with testaceous in the female, the surface of the 

 whole pronotum with a few scattered hairs, even more sparsely dis- 

 tributed than in A. sphenarioides; upper limit of the lateral lobes 

 marked by a slender black stripe, followed above by a somewhat 

 broader rufous band, fading to yellowish, and narrowed in the female; 

 this stripe does not extend upon the head. Tegmina wanting in the 

 male, very slender, linear, straight and green in the female. Legs green, 

 the hind femora tipped, at least in the male, with rufo-testaceous and 

 black; hind tibiae glaucous; hind tarsi red, with black-edged arolium 

 and black-tipped red claws. Abdomen, in the female, with an obscure 

 testaceous mediodorsal stripe, extending upon the thorax, and, on 

 the abdomen, followed by an obscure laterodorsal series of small dark 

 spots; or, in the male, with a similar distinct stripe, bordered by a more 

 or less distinct narrow or broad edging of black, fading laterally into 

 fuscous; supraarial plate of male moderately long and slender, tapering 

 from the base, at first gently, near tip rapidly, the apex slightly obtus- 

 angulate, the margins elevated, a median sulcus extending over the 

 basal half, bounded by pronounced but rounded ridges which unite in 

 the middle of the plate and then continue halfway to the tip; furcula 

 consisting of a pair of short, cylindrical lobes diverging at right angles, 

 projecting but little over the supraanal plate; cerci regularly conical 

 except that they are feebly compressed, acuminate, straight, reaching 

 the tip of the supraanal plate; infracercal plates broad, sulcate, broadly 

 rounded apically, but acutely subacuiuinate at the middle line, extend- 

 ing just beyond the supraanal plate. 



Length of body, male, 15.5 mm., female, 20.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 6.5 mm., female, 5.4 mm. ; tegmina, female, 1.85 mm. ; hind femora, male, 

 8.5 mm., female, 10 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Fort Heed, Orange County, Florida, April 10- 

 21, J. H. Comstock. 



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